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Product Description The intent of this book is to teach .NET developers the skills necessary to create their own leading edge custom controls. The art of creating custom controls has never been truly explored in detail, often the examples provided are trivial and do not begin to explore the requirements need for a commercial quality custom control. This book will not only provide that knowledge, but, in addition provide the source for a fully functional Outlook Bar control.
Featured Customer Reviews  Buggy and incomplete,
March 19, 2005
I give it only two stars because:
1) It does not give you enough in-depth information to create real-world custom controls. It is just a brief introduction.
2) The source code is rubbish. It is poorly formatted, has annoying typos (with no errata on the SAMS website, though you can download the code) and looks like it was written by people with shaky concepts of how .NET code should be written.
I especially like the content-free XML comments. Nice.
Unfortunately, I don't think there is a better book out there. The only other source of custom control info is the web, which can be kind of spotty. If you are an author and you know custom controls, please write a better book than this one. Good book for experienced .net developer,
December 29, 2004Not very detailed,
February 29, 2004 This book is very short and to the point. Having said that, if you're looking to learn custom control development in C# or VB .NET inside and out, this book is not for you. If, on the otherhand, you just need a book to get you started and then take the initiative yourself to learn more, then this is the place to start.This book will give you the basics of custom control development in C# and VB .NET. It will teach you how to draw your own controls, create events and event handlers for your controls, and how to create control designers that will allow you to use the Visual Studio property grid to interact with the control during application development. However, don't look for a whole lot of detail in these areas. This book is very thin, only 252 pages (not including the index). There are only maybe 20 pages per chapter, with much of that being code, and much of the code is repeated over and over as well with minor additions. As stated by other reviewers, this book goes through two main examples, the IconButton and the Office ShortcutBar. Both are rather rudimentary controls which, if you really wanted to use them, would really need a lot of work to make them useful. As stated, if you're looking to learn everything there is to know about custom controls, including much of the .NET base classes, methods, properties and attributes, you might want to try and find another book, though I haven't found one to date. As another reviewer already said, you could probably find all the information contained in this book at many websites, incuding MSDN, and GotDotNet.com. If you just want to dip your toe into the water, this book is perfect. Hope this review helps.  Concise and to the point.,
July 31, 2003WOULD BE MUCH BETTER IF PROPERLY REVISED,
January 26, 2003 This book has got one two positive qualities, but, readers who expect comprehensive details should condition their minds for some sorts of disappointments.
It did give a general overview of .NET Windows curriculum, but faltered in its bid to teach .NET developers the intricate procedures, which they need in order to create their own custom controls.
On going through the first three chapters, I realized that the author of this book is a brilliant mind who experiences difficulties in teaching others what he knows.
Subsequent editions of this book would be sound, if reviewed and edited by more experienced teachers.
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